Me and Helena were asked to run a workshop for an outreach session that would be taking place for a class at the Portsmouth City College. The session would start with our tutor doing a presentation about our course and then that would be followed with the workshop.
Our tutor already had a base idea of what we could do, making concertinas and using the letterpress as stamps, but we wanted to bring our own style of workshops from our society sessions. So we planned to use prompts and have the student choose two that they could merge, this would help with the initial 'not knowing what to draw' which plagues so many creative minds.
I found the experience incredibly helpful and inciteful, as I was able to talk to the teacher of the class who was previous student of the Illustration course I am on right now. It was interesting to hear his views on teacher further education (college level) and the path that he had taken to get where he is.
As for the workshop, a lot of the students seemed to really engage with the task and found is quite fun. It was nice to talk to them and get there view on the two prompt idea. There were a couple students who wouldn't engage and couldn't understand how to merge the two words, but it seemed that they were extremely keen to draw there own thing and they way they acted wasn't really for us to deal with (as we have not experience with teaching).
Overall it was a great experience and a stepping stone for (hopefully) all of the other teaching/workshop experiences to come.
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